SweeTarts
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SweeTarts are sweet and sour candies invented by J. Fish Smith, the owner of Sunline. The tablets were created using the same recipe as the already popular Pixy Stix and Lik-M-Aid in response to parents' requests for a less-messy candy. In 1963, SweeTarts were introduced with the same flavors as the popular Pixy Stix: cherry, grape, lemon, lime, and orange.
The Sunline company was later bought by Rowntree Mackintosh, of the United Kingdom, which was, in turn, taken over by Nestlé. Nestlé rolled the SweeTarts family of candies into the already-existing Willy Wonka Candy Company family of brands.
The current flavors in the SweeTarts roll are blue raspberry (blue), cherry (pink), grape (purple), green apple (green), lemon (yellow), and orange (orange). In 2001, Nestlé corporation chose to replace the original lime with green apple. Unusually, there was no plebiscite regarding this change; it was arbitrary and caught most SweeTart eaters by surprise.
The name is usually pronounced [swiʔ tɑ(r)ts], with gemination appropriate to the wording "sweet tarts" even though the brand has only one medial t.
[edit] Products
- SweeTarts
- Chewy SweeTarts
- Mini SweeTarts
- Mini Chewy SweeTarts
- Giant SweeTarts
- Giant Chewy SweeTarts
- Gummy SweeTarts
- SweeTarts Hearts (Valentine's Day–themed SweeTarts)
- SweeTarts Chicks, Ducks, & Bunnies; SweeTarts Jellybeans (Easter-themed SweeTarts)
- SweeTarts Tube
There are also several spin-off products:
- SweeTarts Rope, a red licorice rope with SweeTarts filling and Rainbow Nerds inside.
- SweeTarts Shockers (formerly known as Shock Tarts), sour chewy candies that come in a variety of fruit flavors.
- SweeTarts Shockers Gum Balls (formerly known as Shock Tarts Sour Gum Balls), sour fruit gum balls.
- SweeTarts Gummy Bugs, small gummy candies shaped like bugs.
| Willy Wonka Candy Company products |
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| Bottle Caps | Chewy Spree | Chewy SweeTarts | Everlasting Gobstopper | Laffy Taffy | Laffy Taffy Flavor Flippers | Lik-M-Aid | Fun Dip | Nerds Nerds Gum Balls | Nerds Rope | Oompas | Pixy Stix | Runts | Spree | SweeTarts | SweeTarts Gummy Bugs | SweeTarts Rope | SweeTarts Shockers SweeTarts Shockers Gum Balls | Tart 'n' Tinys | Wonka Bar | Wonka Donutz Discontinued/replaced |
